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Posted by: Recon Number 54
In other words, there are going to be rude kids here. ___-phobes and haters of every ilk. When they go too far, the community and the moderators can/do respond. The fact that some members of the community want the line drawn elsewhere is a perfectly acceptable notion, but in the end, I draw my lines where I see them, and while I can accept, respect and even am willing to discuss (civilly) with anyone who disagrees. I have to be true and honest to myself in order to be capable of explaining/justifying my own actions.I accept that, but what I am trying to say is that that outright hatred, with little to no civility behind it does not fall into a position that deserves respect in any way, in my opinion. It is explicitly stated in the rules that blatant disrespect is not tolerated, yet, as I mentioned, it's ALWAYS the moderators following a textual trail of destruction, usually after a thread has become a hot topic. Warnings and bans seem to be rarely issued except for extreme cases and, as I said, alts come back fairly quickly to do it all again in a different way.
Not trying to sound pompous and/or self entitled, and I'm not sure if I'm the only one thinking this, but I have to deal with these sorts of people outside of the internet almost daily. When I come here, I come here to wind down and attempt to enjoy some conversation. I don't appreciate some immature asshats instigating a witch hunt against me because somebody else merely mentioned me. Now obviously, this is an extreme example, but it happens literally every time I'm mentioned. I did mention this to moderators before, and was assured that such behavior was inappropriate and would be subject to moderator intervention from then on. Again, this "intervention" hasn't happened outside of the few hours it was worst. More to my point though, replace "me" with any sensitive or even irrelevant or repetitive subject and you have yourself most of the people involved in the same offenses repeatedly, split between alts and seemingly untouchable accounts.
As I said, there really doesn't seem to be any motive or repercussions for people voicing ill mannered thoughts or accusations (not necessarily opinions or viewpoints) to change their behavior. There's a difference between using a poor choice of words or manner to express a volatile opinion and just being offensive or insulting for the sake of it.